The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-11
A FINE BUILDING
FOR THE FIRST WARD
l,y Tho Hoard Of Education Mt It's Special
Meeting Held Last Nlght-A Doscrip.
tion Of tho $4,000 School liuild.
ing that will be Erected.

A special meeting Of the Board Of Edit
cation was held last evening at the rooms
OF the Board in tho Public Library build.
ing. President Pipes presided, and all the
members were present except Messra.
Acker, Escbstruth, shaicr, Whally,
White, Of Washington, D. e.; a member
from Washington nub.dlirict, and Work.
The reading Of the minutes Of the pre-.
vious meeting was diapensed with, and tho
body at once got down to the business for
which 1t Was called, which was to take
action on q report from the Committee on
Buildings and Grounds in relation to the
erection Of a.. now echool building In
Washington district.
The committee reported that 1t had had
before 1t four plans, three Of which had
been submitted by n man. No names
accompanied the plans, tho committee
having In Ito advertisement requested that
the architects present their plans and spe-
citications unsigned. The estimated cost
Of any Of the three plans submitted by the
one man, was $4,000, and the estimated
cost Of the fourth plan $4,000. Tho first
man for his plans and services as superin-
J tendent wanted s por cent Of the contract
pr;ce; the man with the n plan wanted
$40 Tor 1t in case 1t was accepted, 4 per
cent OF the contract price and a clerk, or
in case no clerk WIS allowed he wanted s
per cent. The man presenting the; three
! plans had followed out the order Of the
Board expressed in the advertisement Of
the committee and provided in his plans
Tor the Ruttan.Smead heating apparatus;
the other architect did not do this.
The committee recommended that plan
No. ! Of the three submitted by one man
be adopted. The specifications presented
by both architects were read and several
explanations made, the committees re-
port not being explicit enough in several
particulars. The architect submitting the
three plans, in his estimate calculsted on
new material being used throughout; the
other one calculated on using the
available material from tho old building.
There was an informal discussion over
various points in connection with the
building, and then the committes's report
and the plan eubp1ittud by 1t were adopt
ed, The committee was authorized to cd.
yertise 10. bids Tor erecting the building.
Two sets Of bids will be asked for-one in
which all new material Is to be used and
another in which the bidder is to caleu-
late on using all available material that
can be gotten out Of the old school
building.
Provision was muds for tearing down
the old building. 1t is to be leyeled to
the ground, but the foundation walls will
be allowed to remain, it being be-
lieyed that they will act as braces and
strengthen tho ground on which the new
building is to be- erected. The cellars OF
the old building will be filled up and the
ground in the rear Of the new building
nicely graded of for play grounds.
Mr.. Harrell expressed himself rs being
very much opposed to any brick from the
old building being used in the new one
and gave very satisfactory REASONS Tor not
| wanting them used.
just before the Board adjourned 1t was
announced by Clerk Hall, that the plans
adopted were those Of Mr.. E. W. Wells, a
| we'll known architect Of this city.
The action taken by the Board last
night will entail an expenditure probably,
OF at least $4,000. The architects esti-
mate is $4,000. The heating apparatus
| will cost at least s.. 500, and the other ex.
penses that will arise will easily run the
total up to $4,000. The building that it
ia to replace has stood for over thirteen
years. Many Of the residents in the First
ward, for whose benefit the new building
is to be erected, believe that the old one
has been condemned largely on the prin-
ciple Of hanging a man first and trying
him afterwards.